I know public information films of the 70s and 80s are a standard comedy trope, but

[Burney]

fvcking hell! I'd forgotten how grim some of them were. It's no wonder we grew up too scared to let our kids go outside. The government spent a decade or so scaring the sh1t out of us.

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[Ash]

Gosh. They are a bit strong.

Tufty Club was gentler, of course.

[IUFG]

fvcking hell! I'd forgotten how grim some of them were. It's no wonder we grew up too scared to let our kids go outside. The government spent a decade or so scaring the sh1t out of us.

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The Finishing Line scarred me. The made us watch this at school...

[Burney]

Gosh. They are a bit strong.

Tufty Club was gentler, of course.

It's where they cut back to the tuft of hair, skin and blood after the kid's beaned himself and is about to drown in a puddle.
And the bit where the kid's drowning in slurry.

I remember one where a kid died after playing in a grain silo and had several dozen tons of grain dumped on him. It wasn't a big problem growing up in Croydon, of course, but it still got the message across.

[Burney]

The Finishing Line scarred me. The made us watch this at school...

Yeah, it was a bit conceptual that. Unless they were specifically warning people not to hold school sports days that involved the participants running across a high-speed train track, of course...

[Sir C]

fvcking hell! I'd forgotten how grim some of them were. It's no wonder we grew up too scared to let our kids go outside. The government spent a decade or so scaring the sh1t out of us.

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I seem to remember being repeated warned about the dangers of abandoned fridges. I never really encountered that many abandoned fridges, but clearly the warnings worked, since I didn't die in one.

[IUFG]

Yeah, it was a bit conceptual that. Unless they were specifically warning people not to hold school sports days that involved the participants running across a high-speed train track, of course...

I bought this a few years ago. A nostalgic watch



I tell you what. I've never mixed my crossply and my radials since

[Burney]

I seem to remember being repeated warned about the dangers of abandoned fridges. I never really encountered that many abandoned fridges, but clearly the warnings worked, since I didn't die in one.

Yeah. At no point did it occur to them to suggest to manufacturers that perhaps they could introduce a mechanism whereby someone stuck in an abandon fridge could get out, of course. Or, indeed, tell local authorities not to leave old fridges lying about.

Naaah, fvck it. Let's just terrify the kids instead.

It's rabies I remember. I was terrified of rabies as a kid and entirely certain that every foreign dog or cat was riddled with it.

You don't hear much about it these days, do you?

[Burney]

I bought this a few years ago. A nostalgic watch



I tell you what. I've never mixed my crossply and my radials since

Is that Sir Jingle Jangle top right telling us to do our seatbelts up so we couldn't escape from his Rolls-Royce?

[redgunamo]

fvcking hell! I'd forgotten how grim some of them were. It's no wonder we grew up too scared to let our kids go outside. The government spent a decade or so scaring the sh1t out of us.

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HomosForLife, more like. Where I grew up, all that sort of thing was just known as "going out to play"